MikeR
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| posted on 22/3/23 at 12:29 PM |
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Having spent many a weekend with my dad (ex time served old school engineer) under a mini in my teens I'm fully conversant with mills
(millimeter), thous (thousands of an inch) and variations of measurement eg it needs an 8th taking off (trim by about 3mm).
I also got to the point I could supply the correct spanner across metric, Imperial and whitworth without checking (some bolts on a 20 year old early
70s mini were worn so you had to use the spanner that fitted, not the size it was supposed to be)
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scudderfish
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| posted on 22/3/23 at 12:58 PM |
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Originally posted by gremlin1234
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Originally posted by Sanzomat. The scale on the drawings was given as 2mm:1ft
2mm scale is quite common in model building,
OO gauge is 4mm scale (4mm to foot 1:76.2) for the bodies - but uses a different scale for the track!
Tyres annoy me. 205/55/R17 is a metric measurement, a ratio and an imperial measurement all in one specification!
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